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Stefan Baumrin (1934-2018)

Stefan Baumrin, emeritus professor of philosophy at Lehman College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY), and emeritus professor of…

September 24, 2018
Philosophers Elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Five philosophers have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) this year.

September 24, 2018
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This Daily Nous item is temporarily unavailable while its historical content completes a security review. The title and publication record are preserved; the original…

September 24, 2018
The Difference Between Snowflakes and Champions of Free Speech

What is the difference between those accused of being whiny, coddled, politically correct snowflakes and those who are considered brave champions of free speech?

September 21, 2018
What Is the Best Type of Open Access for Philosophy and Other Humanities Disciplines? (guest post by Roberta Millstein)

The following is a guest post* by Roberta L. Millstein, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Davis.

September 20, 2018
Sylvain Bromberger (1924-2018)

Sylvain Bromberger, professor emeritus of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has died.

September 19, 2018
Help Crowdfund a Book on Women Philosophers by Women Philosophers

The Philosopher Queens is book in progress that features over 20 chapters on women philosophers written by women philosophers.

September 18, 2018
Lessons on Disagreement from a Psychologist of Human Error

Lee Ross (Stanford), an influential social psychologist, reflects on his career of studying error and disagreement in a new essay at Perspectives on Psychological Science.

September 18, 2018
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Welcome to the latest edition of Mini-Heap.

September 18, 2018
PhilPeople: from Philosophy to Philo-Me (guest post by Mitchell Aboulafia)

“The ‘me’ culture has colonized philosophy.”

September 17, 2018
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

Here’s the weekly report on new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.

September 17, 2018
New Prizes in Epistemology and Metaphysics from the APA

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of two new prizes: one in metaphysics, named for Nicholas Rescher (Pittsburgh), and one in…

September 14, 2018
Is Scientific American a Trustworthy Periodical?

Scientific American is a monthly magazine aimed at popularizing scientific and technological findings. But how trustworthy a magazine is it?

September 13, 2018
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A new Mini-Heap is here.

September 12, 2018
Philosophy Publishing and Europe’s New Open Access Requirement

Last week, eleven national funding agencies in Europe, along with the European Commission and the European Research Council, announced the creation of “cOALition S,” which…

September 12, 2018
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)

September 11, 2018
High School Teacher Placed on Leave for Moral Problems Quiz (Update: Teacher Resigns)

A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave (with pay) after a parent complained about a lesson in which students were asked…

September 11, 2018
New: the Journal of Modern Philosophy

A new online, open access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on philosophy from the 16th century through mid-18th century has been created. Called the Journal of Modern…

September 11, 2018
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It’s the latest Mini-Heap!

September 10, 2018
Bentham: Premier Posthumous Producer of Peculiar Pleasures

Jeremy Bentham is weirder than you thought.

September 10, 2018

Heap of Links

“[H]ow quickly… we get from wanting (of course rightly) to protect women and girls from violence—to actually imposing a new risk of violence upon them” — Sophie Grace Chappell writes to JK Rowling
Is pervasive substantive philosophical disagreement evidence for skepticism about philosophy? — "What kind of skepticism?" asks Duncan Pritchard. Pyrrhonian or Academic?
Some authors of articles published in philosophy journals are not disclosing that they used AI in writing them — and they should, says Amos Wollen
It took a philosopher who was a medical doctor to argue for the social utility of vice. Why? — John Callanan and Blain Neufeld discuss Bernard Mandeville, "the wickedest man in Europe"
“The technologies with which we are increasingly interconnected lack the complex interiority required for real intelligence to arise” — Melanie Challenger on how GPS, AI, etc. threaten bodily intelligence
“The path to becoming a researcher seemed shrouded in mystery; academia felt like a distant realm” — Markus Schrenk shares his journey from first-gen college student to successful, prize-winning philosophy professor
“It’s not as though my… research is informed by my politics. I feel it’s the other way around. My politics is informed by my research” — Lea Ypi is interviewed about politics and universities
Critic: “You, ChatGPT, are a bad Bayesian. Rather than assess an interlocutor’s counterargument as better or worse than expected, you tend to just agree with it.” — ChatGPT: "You're right"
“We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces… appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world?” — Joshua Rothman on being needed
Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license
Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo's new book on explanation
“What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle
“The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser)
Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics
“Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad for us.” — Valerie Tiberius is interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the limits of AI "friendship"
Kant thought the indigenous people of the Americas were a race “too weak for hard work, too indolent for assiduous labor and unsuited to any cultivation” — but, as Arnaud Pelletier notes, that not what his source said. So why did Kant say it?
“Proportional to student body size,” the number of students majoring in philosophy at Harvard is “about 10 times the national average” — why is philosophy doing so well there?
A philosophy prof’s mission statement: “reproducing the foundations of Western civilization, one lecture at a time” — one challenge, says Joseph Heath, is that "the two sets of governing principles in our society—liberalism… and capitalism—are second-best arrangements"
“Philosophy: head and heart” — Stephen Darwall's 2024 Dewey Lecture
Is there anything to the concept of “intrinsic human dignity”? — yes, says Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and "it names a burden as much as a distinction"

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Brian Weatherson on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's not even "AI-produced" in any interesting sense. It's produced by a python script from standard sources. That script was written by AI, but that's not particularly relevant;…
Just Saying on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
These rankings are based on data that go back 36 years. For much more recent data and an extremely thorough, professional study, see this on Daily Nous: https://dailynous.com/2023/12/04/new-meta-ranking-of-philosophy-journals/
Azat Sadri on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
"I invite everyone to recognize the damage here" I am a member of a philosophy department (teacher) and am currently writing a PhD, and, in my view, the…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
To be clear, I certainly don't think that you should lose that position on the board for making these remarks. If every board member was losing their position…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
First video is so edited, it's hard to see what's going on. Some of what it shows is definitely abhorrent ways of protesting against Israel though, and I've…
Joel Pust on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
Thanks for posting about this.
Mark Oppenheimer on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
For context. Here are links to videos of some of the events on campus I was referring to. The first shows students wearing Hamas shirts surrounding Jewish students…
Jr Phil Prof on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
So you are a neo-lib if you think that individual responsibility can exist even inside a "broken system"? Applying that principle, should we also cease to mock publicly…
WiseGuy on University of Cape Town vs. Free Speech
No one should lose their academic position for giving conspiracy theory level speculations about the influence of Islamists or Zionists.
Brian Kogelmann on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
Yes.
ERW on New Philosophy Journal Rankings by Citations in SEP in IEP
It's true, even humans can equivocate between "fundamentally unreliable" and "capable of being unreliable." Though I take it most of us understand the difference.
sahpa on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Ahh, I see. Thanks!
sahpa on Building AI That Can Do Philosophy Better Than Us (guest post)
Aren't y'all comparing AI papers against one another — yet the competition is about how good AI is at philosophy? Wouldn't the right comparison there be against human…
Louis F. Cooper on Philosopher-led Team Nets $2.91 Million in Grants for Project on Safeguards of Liberalism
According to Prof. Kogelmann's email quoted in the post, "We want to understand how safeguards that get less attention—like political parties, interest groups, universities, business firms, informal norms,…
Noah on The Enhanced SEP Experience, Version 2
Has Shen approached the SEP administrators about incorporating his work into the site itself? It probably wouldn't be much work to integrate these design elements directly, and I…

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